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On Thu, 7 Aug 2025 15:48:34 -0000 (UTC), "Leroy N. Soetoro" <soetoro@excite.com> in alt.atheism with message-id <1072hsh$2pbbf$2@paganini.bofh.team> wrote:

Putin hopes to travel overseas to meet Trump despite arrest warrant for
war crimes

By Mike Corder, The Associated Press

Posted Aug 7, 2025 11:24:48 AM.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) Vladimir Putin may be traveling abroad next
week for potentially pivotal talks with U. S. President Donald Trump
despite the Russian leader facing an International Criminal Court arrest >warrant.

Putin is wanted by the court on a warrant dating back to March 2023 for >alleged involvement in the abduction of children from Ukraine during the >conflict triggered by Moscows invasion of its neighbor.

The court, headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, relies on other
countries to arrest suspects and has a spotty history of cooperation.

Putin knows that and has traveled overseas since the warrant was issued, >including to ICC member state Mongolia. Hes also traveled to China and
North Korea, which are not court members.

Choosing the United Arab Emirates as a venue would mean Putin visiting >another country that is not a member of the global court.

The International Criminal Court in a nutshell

The court was set up in 2002 and aims to hold leaders and senior
officials accountable for crimes against humanity, war crimes and
genocide. It has 125 member states, but three major global powers the
United States, Russia and China are not members. Ukraine officially
joined the court in January.

More than 900 staff work for the court that has a budget this year of
just over 195 million euros ($228 million).

In an indication of the problems it has getting suspects arrested,
judges have issued warrants for 61 people and 30 remain at large.

The ICC is a court of last resort, meaning it only takes on cases when
other countries legal systems are unable or unwilling to prosecute
suspects.

The United States and Russia both oppose the court

Trumps administration has slapped sanctions on the courts chief
prosecutor, Karim Khan, after Trump signed an executive order imposing >sanctions on the ICC. He accuses the court of illegitimate and baseless >actions targeting America and Israel. The court has issued an arrest
warrant for two top Israeli officials, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, over alleged war crimes in
Gaza. They deny the accusations, and Netanyahu has called the warrant
absurd.

Trump previously sanctioned Khans predecessor, Fatou Bensouda, in his
first term in the White House and the Biden administration subsequently >lifted those sanctions.

Russia also rejects the courts authority and has issued a warrant for
Khan and the ICC judge who signed Putins warrant.

Countries that have not arrested suspects and a notable one that has

It is not just Mongolia that has failed to arrest a suspect wanted by
the court. In April, Netanyahu visited Hungary, an ICC member state, and
was not arrested. Instead, the Israeli leader received a red-carpet
welcome from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who later said his >country does not arrest its visiting friends. Hungary is now in the
process of leaving the court.

The only other countries to have left are Burundi and the Philippines,
whose former president, Rodrigo Duterte, is in custody at the courts
cell block in The Hague after he was arrested on charges of crimes
against humanity linked to his governments deadly crackdown on drugs.

Duterte was arrested in his home country in March by Philippine police
as he arrived on a flight from Hong Kong. President Ferdinand Marcos
said the arrest was proper and correct and not an act of political >persecution.

South Africa allowed Sudans then-leader Omar al-Bashir to visit in 2015 >without arresting him. Al-Bashir is wanted on charges including genocide
for his role in the bloody conflict in Sudans western Darfur region in
the 2000s. He is in prison in his own country but still has not been
sent to The Hague, even after being ousted from office in 2019 in a
popular uprising.

ICC prosecutor is on leave amid ethics probe

Karim Khan, the ICCs chief prosecutor, has stepped down pending the
outcome of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. He
has categorically denied accusations that he tried for more than a year
to coerce a female aide into a sexual relationship and groped her
against her will.

No date has been set for the investigation to be completed.

Mike Corder, The Associated Press

Kangaroo Court

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